The Yiddish Book Center's

Wexler Oral History Project

A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.

Life as a "Wunderkind"

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Cantor Moshe Kraus, Holocaust survivor and first chief cantor of the Israel Defense Forces, describes his life as a well-known child singer, who traveled all over Europe singing for Jews and non-Jews alike.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Moshe Kraus.

This excerpt is in Yiddish.